... or only a tub to the whale, are questions which we will not undertake to answer, though we cannot help confessing that Whig shiftiness in general, and Lord J. Russell's ideas of finality, in particular, cause us to entertain very serious misgivings ...

... candidate, had on the first trial 103 votes out of 221,111 being required; and Mr. !LOA. C. Winthrop of Massachusetts, the whig candidate, formerly I speaker of the House of Representatives, had 96. His supporters stuck to him throughout, but could ' ...

... has led him to recommend. As matters now stand, therefore, with our aristocratic, prejudiced, irresolute and pore curante Whigs, we see no wisdom in trying to bespatter Sir Robert Peel. We may yet find him the best spoke in our wheel. Reports have come ...

... not long since, rumoured that the great Free Trade chief had lost faith in his own principles, and that he and certain great Whig Duke had been tela ■ tstting at Woburn. for the purpose of assertumH»g them, projecting the reimpositioti of a bread tax to ...

... candidate for the Whig party, Mr. Winthrop, was induced to withdraw, in order that a new cloice might be adopted, and a new attempt made to obtain a sufficient majority. No advantage, however, was gained by this policy, for the Whig concentration was ...

... our p ovious letters to that the accounts now received billotincrs had been held; thirty-two had been taken, Messrs Winthrop (Whig), and Cobb (Democrat), beiur the leading candidates. Subsequently, the favour of the latter candidate diminished, and Mr Pidter ...

... ed if its tone be otherwise than friendly to this country. We have no doubt that in so far as regards the man, and the old Whig party with which he is identified, there is a strong desire to cultivate the friendship of Britain, and to avoid those irritating ...

... House of Representatives have taken place without any effect, as no candidate has as 3et obtained an absolute majority. The Whig and Democratic parties can no longer mteaure their strengthi fairly against each other, as a third:party Ilas ariseni called ...

... nothing for it but lloßsoar’s chose * which means a choice between six and half-s Peel was prepared with all this, but &( the Whig Lords. It was early 1845, that the Times uttered that borreved thunder which reverberated throughout the werM—l.a» it proclaimed ...

... Constitution. In 1848 they all knew that a sudden change in political opinions took place amongst the whole body of persons both Whigs and Tories. It seemed as if a sudden conversion had come over them, that parties who had held the doctrines of protection for ...

... when Reform carried, and Reform Ministry power—when political Toryism is virtually dead and entirely harmless. is easy to Whig the matter a hundred years ago ” It is very easy to a Reform depute-advocate. But if we bad never had Reformers of manlier ...

... the candidate for the Whig party, Winthrop, was induced to withdraw, in order that a newchoice might be adopted, and new attempt made to obtain a sufficient majority. No advantage, however, was gained by this policy, for the Whig concentration was rather ...